Posted on 04/23/2005 6:56:06 PM PDT by CHARLITE
John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee to be Ambassador to the United Nations, is a certified tough guy. That’s one of the reasons we support him wholeheartedly and without reservation, for the job.
Under different circumstances, different qualifications might be in order, but one of the unique requirements of the presidency is perspective of time and circumstance, including the selection of key administration personnel. This time and this circumstance dictate a John Bolton to be Ambassador to the U.N. The organization that was once the hope for world peace of Miss America contestants and their political counterparts is broken, corrupt and anti-American. Correct that. It is anti-American in policy, but pro-American for the money that sustains it.
John Bolton can’t fix that; no human can. What he can do is carry some required initiatives without fear or flinch. The concern of those who oppose Bolton is not that he can’t or won’t do the job, but that he will do it all too well.
The “oh-so-serious” charges that have slithered out against Bolton are a bunch of infantile hooey EVEN IF THEY ARE ALL TRUE. Regardless, thus far, there is not a clean, verified, documented accusation in the bunch. If making them represents leadership in the U.S. Senate (rather than the over-acted, cynical political opportunism that we would bet on), then God Save the Republic because such “leadership” will not and cannot save anything, including self-respect.
So John Bolton does not have the patience of Job for dealing with incompetence, with competing agendas, or with the detritus or ferret-like implants of past political patronage that infest all government bureaucracies. We say give him a medal, body armor and steroids to take to his new job.
Do not take our word for why John Bolton should be confirmed. Do your own test. Randomly call five government agencies; local, state or federal. Speak only to career employees, not elected officials or political appointees. Ask questions, make suggestions, lodge complaints.
If you haven’t been driven stark raving mad at the end of that exercise, then by all means oppose the confirmation of John Bolton, confident that all but “meanies” like Bolton are just there to serve. If, on the other hand, you need controlled substances to help you calm down, just think how grateful you’ll be to have someone like John Bolton going after those stuffed shirts, stuffed pockets and need-to-be stuffed apparatchiks at the U.N., because they are far, far worse than anything you could possibly encounter in your home-grown test.
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